Embodiment, Semantics and Social Action: The Case of Object-Transfer in L2 Classroom Interaction

Using conversation analysis and usage-based linguistics, I focus on a beginning L2 user in an ESL classroom trace his use of “family expressions” which, from the perspective linguistic theory, are instantiations either ditransitive dative construction (e.g., “he told me story”) or prepositional story to me”). The semantics both constructions denotes transfer object, physically metaphorically, one agent another. Therefore, investigate them as type object-transfer construction. instances found predominantly instruction sequences, show how co-employs talk recycled embodied work that elaborates deictic references relation agent-object-recipient roles among them. Through my analyses, will showcase nature categorization (Langacker, 1987) but take argument further suggest semiotic resource known “language” is residual social sense-making practices (aus der Wieschen Eskildsen, 2019). study draws MAELC database at Portland State University, longitudinal audio-visual corpus American English interaction.